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Many of my users choose to not use an avatar, so the forum is filled with a bunch of placeholder images under people's names. Instead of that, I would like an option (possibly per-theme assigned just like post count/registration dates?) to disable these placeholder images and just display the username within a thread.

Ahh that is a very good suggestion. However, I believe that may only be a short-term fix. As new updates for XF roll out this template modification would have to be readded as that template changes. A long term fix may be to replace the default avatar images with a clear/blank 1x1 pixel spacer image. The avatar image would still exist but would be no more than 1kb and not visible.

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The above template edit suggestion completely removes avatars, which isn't what this suggestion is about.

This suggestion is to have the avatar placeholder images not present at all. The lack of an avatar is enough of an indication that a user has not chosen to upload/select one. The above suggestion of changing the image to a 1x1 pixel image still leaves an empty box. I would much prefer things just gracefully move up and occupy the space where the avatar would have been.

Hell yes. Many of our current vb4 users are strongly against Avatars (which are turned off in our vb installation).

We've made a custom style for No Avatars in XF, but it needs a lot of template edits!
A checkbox to turn avatars off, or replace them site-wide with a replacement generic image would be very useful indeed.

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This is outdated as the templates have changed and I was looking for a way to do this. To get rid of the placeholder avatar in the member list and next to each post. (Minus the quick reply. I like it there and it sets it apart from other forum software.)

How would I go about doing this now? I've tried searching but have had no luck. And I have to agree it would be nice to have an on/off switch for this. Thanks!